The lion and the throne : the life and times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

Author(s)

    • Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Bibliographic Information

The lion and the throne : the life and times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little, Brown, [1990]

  • : pbk

Available at  / 1 libraries

Search this Book/Journal

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1957

Bibliography: p. [565]-608

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Sir Edward Coke was perhaps the pre-eminent jurist during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James of England. He was the prime author of the Petition of Right, so this biography is simultaneously the story of the roots of our form of free government. But the man who rose to be the Chief Justice of England was eventually dismissed from the bench in disgrace.

by "Nielsen BookData"

Details

Page Top